Franco Pagnucci: "All Day"

Great sweeps of wind,

were settling the cold in.

Chickadees twittered

from the hollows of the spruce

and stayed put.

The bald eagle came down

into a low pine

below the northwest hill

out of the wind.

In late afternoon

an orange horizon,

and a clear night. Stars.

I loved the feel in the west

of days getting longer.

"All Day" by Franco Pagnucci. Text as published in Tracks on Damp Sand (North Star Press, 2014). © Franco Pagnucci. Presented here by poet submission.

Art credit: "A bald eagle, Haliaeetus Leucocephalus, swoops in to land on a tree branch in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming [USA]," photograph by Randall K. Roberts. © 2011 Randall K. Roberts.